<< Actually, the inventor of the process was a genious but most of the
descendants brought no scientific approach to their problems.
Ah, I had a feeling that that was the case but of course I couldn't confirm
anything because I don't know anything about the family at all....
>> And why not try to obtain secrets? What do you think I did? Notice I didn't
say "steal" secrets. There is a difference between "stealing" and
"acquiring."
Of course I like to obtain secrets whenever possible, but I don't think that
one has to think that all secrets lie in the Fresson printing methods. With
scientific studies in alt. processes, photographic processes, quality control,
and color separation, I believe one can obtain similar result, maybe
different, but equally visually pleasing. That is why I kept explaining that I
am not trying to "steal" any Fresson secrets.
And that's the reason I have been asking questions about Fresson. My approach
is that in any kind of research, if you know what kind of things have been
done and know the results, then that will shorten your research time. That is
why I asked questions about separation and why masking was not done, etc.
etc., but the purpose is not to imitate Fresson but to know what kind of
things have been done with alt. processes.
Now I have another question, not technique related, but maybe to the way the
family market their services. I notice that it is not very popular. If I go
out and ask even professional photographers, most of them probably don't know
about the process at all. Why is it that such a beautiful process not so well
known? Are they more famous / popular in Europe? I think most photographers
have at least heard about Evercolor, but they probably haven't heard about
Fresson (of course I am not talking about those with special interests in
historical printing methods, but on average, the average photographer I mean).